Yes, "Don't Open Till Doomsday" has a very Gothic feel and would fit into THRILLER. "Pigeons from Hell" is good, but it isn't my favorite episode from THRILLER. Still, I am amazed that they got away with showing an axe stuck in someone's head. "The Cheaters" scared me w...

"Four sons" is an excellent movie. So what if some critics say it is too indebted to Murnau, this shows a different aspect of WWI.

And I have always liked "Three Bad Men," (which has nothing to do with "Three godfathers," by the way.)

I'm sorry, but "The Zanti Misfits" doesn't hold up for me. When they attack the people at the end of the movie, it is almost too obvious that they are plastic bugs on strings being pulled along. (And usually, stuff like that doesn't bother me.) I was more impressed with "Don't Open Ti...

"The Devil Commands" is a lot of fun, and "They Won't Forget" is very, very good.

Thanks for your comments about "Shop on Main Street" and "Life is Beautiful." Have you ever seen the East German "Jakob the Liar" or "Stars" which is a coproduction of East Germany and Bulgaria. I think both of those rank up with "Shop on Main Street."

"Demon with a Glass Hand" is very good. As I mentioned earlier, it was filmed in the Bradbury Building in LA, which is where "Blade Runner" would be filmed. So if you like "Blade Runner," watching this one is a treat. (I think the original "DOA" was filmed in ...

I really loathe "Sign of the Cross." I saw it over a decade ago at the Cleveland Cinematheque. It was a "restored" version, which meant we had to sit through the 1944 reissue opening scene (in which a Catholic USAAF guy has qualms about bombing Rome, only to be assured by the air...

It has been over twenty years since I saw "The Shop on Main Street," but I remember it as a good movie. Potentially controversial comment coming up. What puzzles me is this. "Shop" is usually considered one of the best films about the Holocaust. In the movie, the goofy hero tries...

I think we may be having trouble with the definition of kid. No, not everyone between age 3 and 13 will sit still for "Bringing Up Baby," but some will respond to the silliness, just as some will find "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" too scary. Just this morning, I watched...

It is a fun movie. Chaney is basically the 'guest star' in this "old dark house" style movie about a village detective who solves a mystery. In some ways, this is faux-Harold Lloyd. (I can really see Lloyd as the film's hero.) If you like the silent "Cat and the Canary," you will...

"Who the Hell's In It" is a very good book, but a very sad book. The interview with John Wayne is terrific. It shows a side of Wayne I didn't realize existed. However, the book is not really a book of interviews. There are some interviews, but it is mostly Bogdanovich remembring his relati...

I enjoyed "Written on the Wind," but I don't consider it one of my favorite movies. A Sirk film I enjoyed much more was "The Tarnished Angels," which was in black-and-white and set in the Thirties (although made in the Fifties with many of the people from "Written on the Win...

I once saw a photo taken at lunchtime during the filming of "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." Marvin, in costume, is sitting at the middle of the table, passing the mashed potatoes to someone (Vera Miles?) with the most pleasant smile on his face.

It is surreal.

I noticed that TCM is showing a bunch of Randolph Scott movies in July. I really like "Seven Men from Now" and "Commanche Station." I look forward to seeing "The Tall T." One Scott-Boetticher western I saw as a kid on Cleveland UHF TV but seems to have vanished now is &...

In Charlton Heston's memoir "In the Arena," he mentions how Eddie G. Robinson would be one of the first on the set during the filming of "soylent Green," long before he had to be, perhaps simply to be around moviemaking one last time. It was a pretty moving passage.